Thankfully, our society still repulses at the atrocious jokes James Gunn made several years ago. His past jokes are simply inexcusable. I won’t share them in this story. I think they are terrible and Gunn should never have attempted that kind of humor.

These are not my thoughts. These are the thoughts of someone I am very close to but am still discovering. I am a passenger, a scribe, swimming in this stream of consciousness. These thoughts resemble mine, filtered through the context of speculative fiction… Enlivened and elongated for the expression of things I’m afraid to tell strangers. These thoughts are mine but do not belong to me.

In a recent interview writer/director Jonathan Nolan laid down, in his own words, the basic tenants of the doctrine.

“There’s a flaw in our code and it follows us around,” he told the reporter. “Wherever we go, there we are. And we just can’t get out of our own (—-) way. All the beauty and incredible things we brought, and we just consistently find a way to (—-) it up.”